Kitsap County to roll out additional $18 million in rental assistance and eviction prevention fundin
Kitsap County is opening its largest eviction assistance program to date in an effort to help residents affected by the COVID-19 economic crisis catch up on their rent and stay housed.
The Kitsap Eviction Prevention Assistance program, or KEPA, will use $18 million in federal and state coronavirus relief funding to pay back rent and utility bills for low-income residents who are behind on their payments.
“This is probably one of the key programs that we can push out outside of small business relief, where folks are probably the most vulnerable, where they have a loss of income,” county commissioner Rob Gelder said.
Kitsap County has received rental assistance funding from three different sources, including state Department of Commerce grants and federal dollars from the Coronavirus Relief Act passed in Dec. 2020. KEPA rolls all of those funding sources together so that low-income families looking for help don’t have to wade through programs with different rules and required documentation, Kitsap County Housing and Homelessness Division Manager Kirsten Jewell said.
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